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The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
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The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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Where there are two people, there is untruth.
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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May new sufferings torment your soul.
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This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
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